The fact that the Huawei Mate XT, the world’s first double-hinged smartphone, will not be a mass product was already clear when the first unofficial bits of information appeared, but even the most determined fans of the company did not expect that they would not expect so much.
Huawei adjusted the premiere of the Mate XT with surgical precision to the presentation and appearance of the iPhone 16: The Chinese announced the foldable on the same day as Apple announced the new iPhone series, and it went on sale on the same day – September 20 both smartphones.
The message is clear and also quite well targeted: China, or rather Huawei, is able to put high technology on the table despite the American sanctions, for which there is apparently (more precisely) a buyer in the otherwise extremely patriotic country.
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All this is clearly shown by the fact that the device did not even have a price, but already at that time more than three million units were pre-ordered, and the total amount of pre-orders has reached 6.5 million units to date, which is exactly two and a half million devices more than all foldable phones shipped globally in the second quarter of this year.
For now, no one knows whether this quantity will be achieved at all, or if so, when Huawei will deliver it. Based on Reuters’ on-site reporting, in any case, those who did not pre-order the phone had no chance of getting it today, which assumes a rather limited starting stock.
However, there was a fan who camped all night in front of the Huawei store in Shenzhen, and admittedly he would have been ready to pay all the money for a Mate XT out of pure patriotism (the starting price of the phone is twenty thousand Chinese yuan, i.e. about one million forints), but this time he was empty-handed he had to leave along with dozens of others waiting. A similar situation was reported by the Beijing correspondent of Reuters.
At the commercial launch of the novelty, Richard Yu, the first person in the company’s consumer business, was also present, who, speaking to the press, did not reveal any details about the sales numbers, except that the interest was greater than expected, and that the stocks ran out practically in seconds.
All of this confirms previous analyst predictions that the Mate XT is actually nothing more than a classic showcase product, which due to its complexity can only be produced in extremely limited quantities and extremely expensively, mostly for demonstration purposes.
This time, however, the real competition is not another technology company, but the United States of America, which in 2019 crushed Huawei’s ambitions at the time, not only in the global segment of smartphones with bendable displays, but in general.
Source: www.hwsw.hu
